News Warner has 13 days to submit a binding offer for Believe, as French company agrees to let WMG peruse its ‘data room’ This is the latest twist in an ongoing corporate saga
Analysis News Tencent Music users are ‘willing to pay’ for music produced with the company’s AI tools… and 3 other things we learned on TME’s latest earnings call Key takeaways from Tencent Music Entertainment's latest earnings call
Interviews ‘Majors and independents have the same end goal. Being aligned on how we get there, and garnering the same respect from different services, is crucial to that.’ Emily Stephenson, President of Publishing at Downtown Music, talks about her career path, her work/life balance and the evolution of publishing
News Adriana Ramos named Managing Director, Brazil at Universal Music Publishing Group Ramos replaces longtime Brazil MD Marcelo Falcao
News Tracy Chan, ex-Chief Content Officer at SoundCloud, joins AI music company Splash as Chief Executive Officer Chan joined SoundCloud in 2022 and exited his role as CCO at the platform this month (March)
News Joni Mitchell’s music is back on Spotify, a week after Neil Young’s music returned to the platform Move comes more than two years after both artists removed their catalogs from Spotify
News Musixmatch partners with AI company Runway to let artists generate AI-powered lyric videos The tool can also directly export the compositions as 30-second clips to create assets for social media, and Spotify Canvas.
News UK live music promoters Communion Presents and FKP Scorpio UK merge to form Communion ONE Communion ONE will be led by a board including managing directors Daniel Ealam, Mazin Tappuni and Scott O’Neill
News Tencent Music President and Chief Technology Officer Zhenyu Xie to exit Exec will continue to be involved with TME in a consulting capacity
News French regulators step in to remove roadblock for possible Warner Music Group bid for Believe Believe's board turned to the AMF to adjudicate whether a particular move by a consortium led by Believe founder/CEO, Denis Ladegaillerie, was lawful
Analysis News From the ‘secret’ composer behind 650 fake artists to BandLab’s 100m users… it’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up This week's biggest stories...
News Streaming fraud leads to prison sentence for Danish man in case called ‘historic’ by artists’ groups Streaming fraud and manipulated audio are two of the biggest headaches in music today, and a criminal case shows how the two go hand in hand
Analysis Blog ‘In the absence of robust record-keeping, there is no way of knowing what content has been used and generated by AI.’ A bill was recently introduced in the UK to regulate AI in the market. In the following op/ed, Conservative politician Lord Holmes of Richmond MBE explains what the bill aims to achieve
News Music-making platform BandLab surpasses 100 million users App has grown by 40 million users since January 2023
News ELVIS Act signed into law in Tennessee to protect artists’ voice and likeness from the misuse of AI The bipartisan ELVIS Act was signed into law on Thursday (March 21) by Tennessee Governor Bill Lee
News Non-profit Fairly Trained certifies an AI large language model as free of copyright infringement, in a blow to a key claim of AI firms "There is no fundamental reason that large language model developers can’t work in a way that respects creators’ rights"
News BMG Chief Content Officer Dominique Casimir steps down Exec to exit her role after 15 years with the company
News Indie artists shift to artist-centric payments on Deezer, as streaming service signs new deal with Merlin Merlin joins a growing list of music companies to sign up for Deezer's innovative new royalty payment model